Small plant for such big peppers. I wouldn’t expect the plants to get much bigger as they are putting most of their energy into fruiting.
RCAFlies
Have you grown them before? I picked 3 up from our nursery year before last and while they did grow, they never became big bushy pepper plants. Some of them did have a suprising bit of heat to them.
omnomvege
They’re great! Yours looks healthy and fine too. If anything, I would trim that pepper in the middle of the plant, but that could just be the angle of the photo – it looks like it’s going to get stuck between stems and your other peppers.
Personally, I can only grow a few bell type peppers on a plant at one time in my climate. Any more than that, and they end up mini-bell size. I would let all 3 of your larger peppers fully ripen, and not trim any of those off. They’re almost full size at this point, and trimming them now won’t gain you any additional harvests later… you have no flowers on that plant right now. Once my bell peppers reach full size, I usually start seeing flowers again a week or two later as it starts on its next round.
The internet is full of conflicting advice, and some of that is opinion, some is just differences in growing regions, and some is just… some people are wrong lol. If you’re ever in doubt, let the plant deal with it. It’s usually better to do that, than to listen to some chucklefuck online telling you to cut nearly-done peppers off your healthy looking plant to “increase production” lol
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Small plant for such big peppers. I wouldn’t expect the plants to get much bigger as they are putting most of their energy into fruiting.
Have you grown them before? I picked 3 up from our nursery year before last and while they did grow, they never became big bushy pepper plants. Some of them did have a suprising bit of heat to them.
They’re great! Yours looks healthy and fine too. If anything, I would trim that pepper in the middle of the plant, but that could just be the angle of the photo – it looks like it’s going to get stuck between stems and your other peppers.
Personally, I can only grow a few bell type peppers on a plant at one time in my climate. Any more than that, and they end up mini-bell size. I would let all 3 of your larger peppers fully ripen, and not trim any of those off. They’re almost full size at this point, and trimming them now won’t gain you any additional harvests later… you have no flowers on that plant right now. Once my bell peppers reach full size, I usually start seeing flowers again a week or two later as it starts on its next round.
The internet is full of conflicting advice, and some of that is opinion, some is just differences in growing regions, and some is just… some people are wrong lol. If you’re ever in doubt, let the plant deal with it. It’s usually better to do that, than to listen to some chucklefuck online telling you to cut nearly-done peppers off your healthy looking plant to “increase production” lol